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June 2016

June 20, 2016

The Three Worst Stories That “Me Before You” Tells About Disability

Me Before You tells three particularly damaging stories about life with a disability.

March 2015

March 16, 2015

Finding Common Ground on Abortion: An Interview with Charles Camosy

Guest post by Karen Swallow Prior Note from EPD: This is the transcript of an...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Feel Like Everyone Wants a Piece of You?: A Guide for More Wholehearted Living for Moms

The core message of Wholehearted Living is that while our families and responsibilities will sometimes...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

How the Internet is Killing the Book Review

Now that I own a Kindle, my ever-raging thirst for new reading material can be...

March 03, 2014

Writing Letters for Lent

One of the best books I've read over the past couple of years, of any...

December 2013

December 16, 2013

Books to Read and Give: My 2013 Favorites

As many of you know, I fell on the ice a couple of weeks ago,...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

“We can just love them”: Adoptive Parents on Their Kids with Special Needs

In honor of National Adoption Month, I'm featuring below an excerpt from Love You More: The...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

A Story About the Abundance, and Absence, of Memory and Faith

Walker has written a story about Alzheimer's, yes, and about her mother, and about her....

September 20, 2013

[Snapshots from Oak Ridge] I Wrote a Book. Want One?

I will confess something that will be not at all surprising to most of you,...

September 17, 2013

“Wonder” and the Paradoxes of Living with a Disability

R.J. Palacio's young adult novel Wonder tells the story of Auggie, a boy with a severe facial...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

The Only Really Honest Ones? Addiction and Grace in “Sober Mercies”

I recently reviewed Heather Kopp's memoir, Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk...

July 10, 2013

Do I Love the Bible? It’s Complicated.

Christians like me, who lean left on political and social issues, are often accused of...

July 08, 2013

Resurrection Year: Learning to Live, and Thrive, with Life as It Is Given

Our Western cultural attitudes are not well-equipped for failure. We are a culture of optimists...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

5 Truths About Blogging (IMHO)

As always happens when conflict and controversy and hurt feelings come gushing forth from the...

June 17, 2013

A Book to Help Us Be Informed Listeners on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Whether we're telling stories or absorbing facts (or ideally, doing both), we are called to...

June 11, 2013

I Have a Kid Hangover (But Manage to Write Anyway)

The past thirteen-plus years for me have been one long exercise in welcoming the messy,...

May 2013

May 08, 2013

Articulating the Mystery of Faith: Christian Wiman’s “My Bright Abyss”

We Christians are sometimes taken to task for the way that we, when embroiled in...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

A Different Take on Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Questions around suffering and pain are stock in trade for me as a writer. I...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Rachel Stone’s “Eat with Joy”: Why Healthy Eating Goes Beyond What We Eat

It is fitting that I’m writing this review of Rachel Stone’s new book Eat with...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

“Love and Salt”: Two Friends Seeking God with Mind and Heart

Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters is the kind of book that you...

February 07, 2013

The Little Blonde Girl on the Back Steps

Before buying the house we live in now, we lived in a tiny five-room ranch...

February 01, 2013

Why I Love Writing, But Don’t Always Like It

I have been on an Alice Munro binge, gobbling up her latest collection of short...

December 2012

December 10, 2012

A Lifeline for Our Damaged Selves: A Review of Anne Lamott’s “Help. Thanks. Wow.”

For many female Christian writers, particularly those like me who write about theology in non-academic...

December 07, 2012

“We Have to Consider the Quality of Our Children”: IVF, a Nobel Prize, and Cultural Confusion Around Reproductive Ethics

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I’m devoting Fridays from...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

What the Real St. Nicholas Teaches Us About Gift Giving

When I picked up Adam C. English's new book, The Saint Who Would be Santa...

November 16, 2012

Which Story Do You Live By?

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I'm devoting Fridays from...

November 12, 2012

What Hobbits Have Taught Me About God’s Providence

My husband and I are Lord of the Rings movie junkies. I believe I could...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

What We Can Learn from Johnny Appleseed

One of my family's cherished, non-negotiable traditions, ranking right up there with summer camping trips...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

“No Easy Choice”: Driving People Nuts Since 2012

My favorite line in writer, reviewer, and all-around nice person LaVonne Neff's review of my...

June 2012

June 01, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Katherine Willis Pershey on Marriage, Motherhood, and Ministry

Every Friday, I feature something written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a...